The country has entered an era of education reform with an extensive focus on how well it is preparing students to succeed in postsecondary education and careers in a rapidly changing economy, as well as to become thriving, contributing members in its democracy. Although these aims have recast the national conversation in important ways, they have…

Asserting that schools should promote a more international attitude, the author discusses some curriculum development projects in this area and the importance of the teacher's attitude in developing tolerance and international understanding. Condensed from "The International Schools Journal," Spring 1981, pp7-14. (Editor/SJL)

Discusses communication gulfs hindering the social studies profession and suggests a national commission to deal with the priority issues of scope and sequence and values education. Condensed from "The Social Studies: Eightieth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part II," Chapter 12, pp244-69. (Editor/SJL)

Discusses different preinstructional and instructional variables over which teachers have some control and which may affect learning, including content choice, wait time, time on task, form of instruction, success rate, monitoring, questioning, and orientation to academics. (DC)

In this article, the author discusses the importance of reforming the present school reforms mandated by the government. He emphasizes the need for better teachers and the need to reinvent the ways of recruiting, training, and retaining teachers. He also points out the need for a better curriculum and the need to create a national curriculum. He…